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Paul E. McKenney 2e3e5e5501 rcu: Make rcu_start_this_gp() check for grace period already started

In the old days of ->gpnum and ->completed, the code requesting a new
grace period checked to see if that grace period had already started,
bailing early if so.  The new-age ->gp_seq approach instead checks
whether the grace period has already finished.  A compensating change
pushed the requested grace period down to the bottom of the tree, thus
reducing lock contention and even eliminating it in some cases.  But why
not further reduce contention, especially on large systems, by doing both,
especially given that the cost of doing both is extremely small?

This commit therefore adds a new rcu_seq_started() function that checks
whether a specified grace period has already started.  It then uses
this new function in place of rcu_seq_done() in the rcu_start_this_gp()
function's funnel locking code.

Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

2018-07-12 15:38:54 -07:00

Kconfig

rcu: Drive TASKS_RCU directly off of PREEMPT

2017-08-17 07:26:04 -07:00

Kconfig.debug

rcu: Move RCU debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu

2017-06-08 18:52:44 -07:00

Makefile

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00

rcu_segcblist.c

rcu: Simplify and inline cpu_needs_another_gp()